Abstract: A tissue holder assembly for receiving and imaging severed tissue samples from a biopsy device includes a base and a cover removably attached to the base to define an interior, the base having one or more vacuum lumens in communication with the interior, the assembly further including a tissue tray removably and rotatably mounted in the interior, wherein a bottom of the tissue tray comprises a filter material that allows fluid to pass through. The cover has a tissue sample entry port formed therein and configured direct severed tissue samples and fluid aspirated therethrough into a respective tissue storage compartment of the tissue tray positioned under the tissue sample entry port, wherein the base includes a raised surface underlying at least a portion of the tissue tray circumferentially spaced apart from the tissue sample entry port when the cover is attached to the base.

Abstract: A method for operating a brake system assembly includes evaluating input data and downgrading from a first mode to a second mode according to the result of the evaluation. The input data is a performance curve of the first mode and determining the performance curve includes using a torque-speed curve, a first mode-dependent characteristic curve with at least one mathematical formula. Evaluating the input data includes comparing an ascertained performance capability of the first mode according to the calculated performance characteristic with the performance capability of the second mode.

Abstract: A system and method for imaging a self-bootstrapping computing node includes booting, from a boot device, the computing node into a bootstrapping environment using a bootstrap operating system, where the bootstrap operating system is configured with an address of an imaging location, accessing the imaging location and receiving a software image for the computing node, and, imaging the computing node using the software image including installing another operating system on the computing node to boot from the boot device. Monitoring a status of the computing node's imaging operations using an application programming interface (API), monitoring a health status of the computing node, and enabling restart of the boot process upon failure (e.g., self-healing, self-recovery, etc.), is also described.

Abstract: A mixture includes a nickel-containing ore and/or concentrate thereof and an extraction composition including a fermentation broth obtained from an Aspergillus species (spp.), Acetobacter spp., Bacillus spp., Propionibacterium spp., Corynebacterium spp., Rhizopus spp., Clostridium spp., Fusobacterium spp., Pseudomonas spp., Bifidobacterium spp., Saccharomyces spp., Enterobacter spp., Escherichia spp., among others. The extraction composition is configured to selectively solubilize one or more components, such as a magnesium component from the nickel-containing ore and/or concentrate thereof. A method for extracting a metal from a nickel-containing ore and/or concentrate includes selectively solubilizing a magnesium component from the nickel-containing ore and/or concentrate thereof into an extraction composition including the fermentation broth.

Abstract: An insertable port connector for connecting to a fluid port of a device to a sterilization apparatus. The port connector includes a connector body and a porous member. The connector body has an insertion portion, a connection portion, and a porous member brace. The insertion portion is insertable into a lumen of the fluid port and has an inlet. The connection portion connects to the sterilization apparatus. The connection portion has an outlet in fluid communication with the inlet and is configured to be fluidly coupled to the sterilization apparatus. The porous member is supported by the insertion portion. The porous member has a porous structure forming a plurality of minute passageways. The porous member is arranged to be inserted into the lumen with the insertion portion. The porous member is biased outward by the porous member brace so that the porous member engages an interior of the fluid port.

Abstract: A system is provided that includes a memory device and one or more processors coupled with the memory device. The one or more processors are configured to determine, autonomously, one or more phases in a surgical procedure based on a video stream of the surgical procedure. The one or more processors are further configured to identify one or more usages of a surgical instrument used during the surgical procedure. The one or more processors are configured to display a chart of the one or more usages. The chart divides the one or more usages according to the one or more phases respectively, and a representation of each of the one or more usages indicates a duration of each usage.

Abstract: Apparatus and method of managing genomic sequencing data. In an embodiment, a data management controller is communicatively coupled to an external data repository over a communication network. The data management controller is configured to detect a first event triggering initial analysis on raw sequence data encoded in a standard file format and stored in the external data repository. The data management controller is configured to launch one or more analysis tools to perform the initial analysis on the raw sequence data stored in the external data repository, and to output initial analysis results. The data management controller is configured to determine whether the initial analysis results pass quality control, and control electronic storage of the raw sequence data when the initial analysis results pass quality control by storing the raw sequence data in archive storage, and deleting the raw sequence data from the external data repository.

Abstract: A multimodal biometric device is disclosed. An apparatus may include a non-contact imaging system. The non-contact imaging system may include imaging optics, optical illumination optically coupled to the imaging optics, and a configurable body part support to support different body parts at corresponding focal lengths to capture different portions of the different body parts. An apparatus may also include a housing coupled to the imaging optics, the optical illumination, and the configurable body part support.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions relating to variant nucleic acid libraries encoding for antibodies including single domain antibodies. Libraries generated using methods described herein have improved characteristics including improved binding affinity. Libraries described herein include variegated libraries comprising nucleic acids each encoding for a predetermined variant of at least one predetermined reference nucleic acid sequence. Further described herein are protein libraries generated when the nucleic acid libraries are translated. Further described herein are cell libraries expressing variegated nucleic acid libraries described herein.

Abstract: In various examples, latency of human interface devices (HIDs) may be accounted for in determining an end-to-end latency of a system. For example, when an input is received at an HID, an amount of time for the input to reach a connected device may be computed by the HID and included in a data packet transmitted by the HID device to the connected device. The addition of the peripheral latency to the end-to-end latency determination may provide a more comprehensive latency result for the system and, where the peripheral latency of an HID is determined to have a non-negligible contribution to the end-to-end latency, a new HID component may be implemented, a configuration setting associated with the HID component may be updated, and/or other actions may be taken to reduce the contribution of the peripheral latency to the overall latency of the system.

Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for obtaining functionally enhanced derivative effector cells obtained from directed differentiation of genomically engineered iPSCs. The derivative cells provided herein have stable and functional genome editing that delivers improved or enhanced therapeutic effects. Also provided are therapeutic compositions and the used thereof comprising the functionally enhanced derivative effector cells alone, or with antibodies or checkpoint inhibitors in combination therapies.

Abstract: A mixture includes a nickel-containing ore and/or concentrate thereof and an extraction composition including an aqueous solution including a first organic acid, which includes an acid selected from the group consisting of citric acid or malic acid, or combinations thereof; an optional additional organic acid; and an optional inorganic acid. A concentration ratio of the first organic acid to the additional organic acid is in a range from 1:0 to 1:?1. The extraction composition is configured to selectively solubilize one or more components including a magnesium component from the nickel-containing ore and/or concentrate thereof. A method for extracting a metal from nickel-containing ore and/or a concentrate thereof includes selectively solubilizing a magnesium component that includes one or more magnesium minerals, a magnesium salt, or any combination thereof from a nickel-containing ore, and/or concentrate thereof into an extraction composition.

Abstract: An adjustment mechanism for an adjustment device comprising a main worm gear wheel having a hollow central passage and a main worm. The main worm gear wheel is held in an injection molded plastic housing having at least one opening axially aligned with the central passage to allow a shaft to extend via the opening into the central axial passage to be in supporting engagement with the main gear. The main worm is held in the housing for rotation about a main axis of the main worm, and includes at least one circumferential spiral tooth in intermeshing arrangement with teeth on the circumference of the main worm gear wheel, and can be driven to rotation relative to the housing about its main worm axis. Stiffeners are provided between the housing and the main worm gear wheel and/or the main worm to lock the intermeshing arrangement of the teeth under torque.

Abstract: A golf club has a first shaft coupled to a club head, a second shaft configured to slidably engage a portion of the first shaft, a grip coupled to the second shaft, and an adjustable length shaft assembly received by the second shaft and configured to allow a portion of the first shaft to slide in relation to the second shaft in a first configuration, and to restrict a portion of the first shaft from sliding in relation to the second shaft in a second configuration. The grip is restricted from rotation about the first shaft or the second shaft as the first shaft slides in relation to the second shaft.

Abstract: Provided herein are mycelium materials and methods for production thereof. In some embodiments, a mycelium material includes one or more deformation areas spaced apart from each other. Additives and bonding agent may be combined with the mycelium material. Wet embossing methods of producing a mycelium material are also provided.

Abstract: A hinge assembly comprising a first hinge leaf assembly and a second hinge leaf assembly, each having their respective hinge leaf. The hinge assembly further comprises at least one mounting member fixable to a moveable barrier through a fixing arrangement. The first and/or second hinge leaf is connectable to the at least one mounting member so as to be adjustable relative thereto. A locking arrangement is also included to releasably lock the first and/or second hinge leaf to the at least one mounting member. The locking arrangement is operative to adopt a hold condition where relative movement between the first and/or second hinge leaf and the at least one mounting member is prevented, and a released condition where the first and/or second hinge leaf is able to be adjusted relative to the at least one mounting member.

Abstract: An expanded multilayer integral geogrid includes a plurality of oriented strands interconnected by partially oriented junctions having an array of openings therein that is produced from a coextruded or laminated multilayer polymer starting sheet. The integral geogrid has a multilayer construction, with at least one inner layer thereof having a structure that is expanded relative to at least one other layer of the multiple layers. By virtue of the expanded inner layer structure, the expanded multilayer integral geogrid provides for increased layer compressibility under load, resulting in enhanced material properties that provide performance benefits to use of the expanded multilayer integral geogrid in soil geosynthetic reinforcement, and economic benefits compared to a like integral geogrid without an expanded inner layer structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an expandable energy delivery assembly adapted to deliver electrical energy to tissue. The assembly includes an elongate device and an expandable portion. The expandable portion includes an inflatable element, a single helical electrode disposed on the inflatable element, and at least one irrigation aperture within the inflatable element. The inflatable element is secured to the elongate device and the single helical electrode makes between about 0.5 and about 1.5 revolutions around the inflatable element. The at least one irrigation aperture is adapted to allow fluid to flow from within the inflatable element to outside the inflatable element.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE), such as a UE associated with an extended reality (XR) device, may obtain frame data from one or more cameras associated with the UE. The UE may determine a path of a beam providing communication between the UE and a base station, determine a location of a base station in communication with the UE, or both, where the base station location may be relative to a location of the UE. The UE may identify, based on the frame data, the path of the beam, the base station location, the UE location, or a combination thereof, a physical blockage to the communication. The UE may perform beam management for the communication based on identifying the physical blockage, so as to mitigate the impact the physical blockage may have on the communications between the UE and the base station.

Abstract: A helmet (1) for carrying audio-visual equipment includes a brace member (18) having first and second ends (20, 22). The brace member passes in a spaced apart relationship from the left side of the head to the right side of the head of a wearer in use, until connecting at each end (20, 22) to a respective left or right side of the helmet (1). A boom (24) has a first boom end and a second boom end, the boom connecting at the first boom end to one of the first and second ends (20, 22) of the brace member (18). The boom includes a mounting for carrying at least one camera in a position near the head of a wearer. A method of capturing image data from a face and a power supply system for portable equipment are disclosed.